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B-205908 1 (1982-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkoq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UEC01 BIDtN FILE; THE COMPTrLLER L'ENIIAL 'VIF TP1IE UNITED93 Q8TATQUB WASe H IN GTO N, D0t),Q R00 401 B-205908 DATE; August 24, MATTER DIGEST: OF: Ira J. Kaylin An agenoy rented hotel accommoda- tions costing $81.43 a day and approved a cash per diem of $35tfor an employee on temporary duty at Honolulu, Hawaii, in April 1981. This contemplated payment of appropriated funds totaling $116.43 to cover the employee's daily subsistence expenses was improper, since it exceeded bQth the $70 locality per diem rate then established for Honolulu under 5 U.S.CP § 5702(a) and the alternate $163 maximum actual expense rate authorized under 5 U.S.C. § 5702(d). There was no authority to exceeo those statutory limitations, and th. employee's travel allowances had to be retroactively reduced. In the circumstances, the reduction may be to the $103 actual expense rate even though the employee dJ.d not itemize expenses. This action is in response to a request for an advance decision from a certifying officer of the Department of the Treasury on the question of whether a supplemental travel voucher in the amount of $188 may properly be certified for payment to Mr. Ira J. Kaylin, a departmental en.ployee. That amount represents per diem Mr. Kaylin claims at a rate which was specified in an official tra'd.l authorization but which has been determined to be in excess of the applicable statutory limitations. We conclude that the supplemental travel voucher may not be certified for payment. Mr. Kaylin traveled on official business from his permanent duty station in Washington, D.C., to attend the annual meeting of the As:Lan Development Bank held in Honolulu, Hawaii, between April 21 and May 4, 1981. The Department contracted hotel accommodations for him in Honolulu for the 14-day meeting at a rental cost of $l,140, i.e., at an average cost of $81.43 per day. The Department r % 'I I- 1982 119 M i

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